THIS PAPER PRESENTS A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ethical and methodological issues within cross-cultural music science research, including issues around community based research, participation, and data sovereignty. Although such issues have long been discussed in social science fields including anthropology and ethnomusicology, psychology and music cognition are only beginning to take them into serious consideration. This paper aims to fill that gap in the literature, and draw attention to the necessity of critically considering how implicit cultural biases and pure positivist approaches can mar scientific investigations of music, especially in a cross-cultural context. We focus initially on two previous papers (Jacoby et al., 2020; Savage et al., 2021) before broadening our discussion to critique and provide alternatives to scientific approaches that support assimilation, extractvism, and universalism. We then discuss methodological considerations around cross-cultural research ethics, data ownership, and open science and reproducibility. Throughout our critique, we offer many personal recommendations to cross-cultural music researchers, and suggest a few larger systemic changes.

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跨文化音乐科学研究中的反殖民策略。


本文对跨文化音乐科学研究中的伦理和方法论问题进行了批判性分析，包括围绕社区研究、参与和数据主权的问题。尽管这些问题在人类学和民族音乐学等社会科学领域早已被讨论，但心理学和音乐认知才刚刚开始认真考虑它们。本文旨在填补文献中的这一空白，并提请人们注意批判性考虑隐性文化偏见和纯粹实证主义方法如何损害音乐科学研究的必要性，尤其是在跨文化背景下。我们首先关注之前的两篇论文（Jacoby 等人，2020 年；Savage 等人，2021 年），然后将我们的讨论扩大到批判，并为支持同化、榨取主义和普遍主义的科学方法提供替代方案。然后，我们讨论围绕跨文化研究伦理、数据所有权以及开放科学和可重复性的方法论考虑因素。在我们的批评中，我们向跨文化音乐研究人员提供了许多个人建议，并提出了一些更大的系统性改变。